Hysenaj Arben, Leclère Mariel, Tahirbegolli Bernard, Kuqi Dorentina, Isufi Albane, Prekazi Lulejete, Shemsedini Nevzat, Maljichi Driton, Meha Rina
Faculty of Social and Psychological Sciences, Heimerer College, Prishtina, Kosovo.
Department of Clinical Psychology and Health Psychology, University of Bamberg, Germany.
Eur J Psychol. 2024 Feb 29;20(1):16-24. doi: 10.5964/ejop.11789. eCollection 2024 Feb.
Wearing face masks is one of the important actions to prevent the spread of COVID-19 among people around the world. Nevertheless, social interaction is limited via masks, and this impacts the accuracy and speed of emotional perception. In the present study, we assess the impact of mask-wearing on the accuracy and speed of emotion recognition. Fifty people (female n = 39, male n = 11) aged 19-28 participated in the study (M = 21.1 years). We used frontal photos of a Kosova woman who belonged to the same participants' age group, with a grey background. Twelve different pictures were used that showed the emotional states of fear, joy, sadness, anger, neutrality, and disgust, in masked and unmasked conditions. The experiment was conducted in a controlled laboratory setting. Participants were faster for identifying emotions like joy (1.507 ms) and neutral (1.971 ms). The participants were more accurate (emotions identification) in unmasked faces (M = 85.7%) than in masked faces (M = 73.8%), F(1,98) = 20.73, MSE = 1027.66, p ≤ .001, partial η² = 0.17. Masks make confusion and reduce the accuracy and speediness of emotional detection. This may have a notable impact on social interactions among peoples.
佩戴口罩是防止新冠病毒在全球人群中传播的重要措施之一。然而，通过口罩进行的社交互动受到限制，这会影响情感感知的准确性和速度。在本研究中，我们评估了佩戴口罩对情绪识别准确性和速度的影响。50名年龄在19至28岁之间的人（女性n = 39，男性n = 11）参与了该研究（平均年龄M = 21.1岁）。我们使用了一名科索沃女性的正面照片，她与参与研究的人员年龄相同，背景为灰色。使用了12张不同的照片，展示了戴口罩和不戴口罩情况下恐惧、喜悦、悲伤、愤怒、中性和厌恶的情绪状态。实验在受控的实验室环境中进行。参与者识别喜悦（1.507毫秒）和中性（1.971毫秒）等情绪的速度更快。参与者在识别未戴口罩面孔时的情绪（M = 85.7%）比戴口罩面孔时更准确（M = 73.8%），F(1,98) = 20.73，均方误差MSE = 1027.66，p ≤.001，偏 eta 平方partial η² = 0.17。口罩会造成混淆并降低情绪检测的准确性和速度。这可能会对人们之间的社交互动产生显著影响。
